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   BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 04-Sep-2025 02:43:21 JST BrianKrebs

   just wow. read this, from Techdirt:

   Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist

   https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/02/wired-business-insider-editors-duped-by-completely-bogus-ai-using-journalist-who-made-up-towns-people-that-dont-exist/

   Here's Wired's mea culpa:

   https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-got-rolled-by-an-ai-freelancer/

   Techdirt's Karl Bode correctly concludes: "This country has taken an absolute hatchet to quality journalism, which in turn has done irreparable harm to any effort to reach reality-based consensus or have an informed electorate. The rushed integration of “AI,” usually by media owners who largely only see it as a way to cut corners and undermine labor, certainly isn’t helping. Add in the twisted financial incentives of an ad-based engagement infotainment economy, and you get exactly the sort of journalistic outcomes academics long predicted."

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     Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 00:45:15 JST Em :official_verified:

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     @briankrebs Adjacent to this, when I research to write an article, I constantly have to dodge fake AI-generated articles, and even sometimes whole websites. It's infuriating.

     I've seen some websites that were likely entirely AI-generated, even creating fake journalists personas, names, and pictures.

     We have to be so vigilant now to double and triple check every source of information. This pollution is everywhere, at a rate of disinformation completely unprecedented. I don't think most people are as careful as I am on this, and I fear for what this means for the future.